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Renaissance: The Spanish Armada of 1588

History Storytime - For Kids

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I Come Among You to Live and Die Among You

Sir Francis Drake set fire to some of his own ships and sailed them into the middle of the Spanish Armada. Without their horseshoe shape they were pounced on, one by one by the English ships. The Armada was crushed in battle, and the remains of the Armada fled as quickly as they could away from the English. They sailed around Scotland and Ireland, but a big storm came with lightning and thunder and huge waves and big winds. All their ships were blown onto the shore and they were shit-rept or so. And afterwards the English told everyone the Spanish had been defeated by the storms, because the storms would have been sent by God. But of course we

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